Friederike Brun

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Friederike Brun, 1818
Christoph Heinrich Kniep : Ida Bruhn as a dancer (around 1815)

Friederike Brun (born Münter , full name: Friederike Sophie Christiane Brun ; born June 3, 1765 in Gräfentonna , Thuringia , † March 25, 1835 in Copenhagen ) was a German writer.

Life

Friederike Brun was the daughter of the preacher Balthasar Münter and the sister of the later Copenhagen Bishop Friedrich Münter . At the age of five she came to Copenhagen with her family . There she grew up and also received her education. Through her father she soon met the brothers Count Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg and Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg . In 1783, at the age of 18, she married the Danish legation counselor Constantin Brun , who was soon appointed consul to Saint Petersburg . The couple returned to Copenhagen a year later.

From then on she was also called Madame de Staël of the North . Her youngest daughter Ida performed as a singer and dancer in her popular salons .

In the very harsh winter of the turn of the year 1788/1789, Brun completely lost her hearing and never regained it. In addition to her duties as a housewife and mother, she now began her literary work. From 1790, her first poems appeared in various almanacs . Friedrich Schiller published her poems An Sie und Zuversicht in his magazine Die Horen .

In 1791 Brun traveled with her family to Geneva , Paris and southern France . In 1795 she traveled to Switzerland and Italy for several months . In the years 1801 to 1810 the countries of southern Europe were again and again the preferred travel destinations. From 1810 Brun gave up her travels and now resided alternately in Copenhagen and on her country seat Sophienholm . She died in Copenhagen on March 25, 1835 at the age of 70.

children

  • Carl Friedrich Balthasar Brun (April 20, 1784 - November 14, 1869), landlord, chamberlain and court hunter. From him comes the other German-Danish family Brun up to the Danish Greenland politician Eske Brun (1904–1987).
  • Charlotte Brun (1788–1872) ∞ (August 4, 1809) August Wilhelm Pauli , merchant and Hanseatic Minister-Resident in Copenhagen from 1814 to 1848
  • Augusta Brun (1790–1845) ∞ (October 11, 1811) Gustav von Rennenkampff (1784–1869), German-Baltic landowner
  • Adelaide Caroline Johanne Brun, called Ida (September 20, 1792 - November 23, 1857) ∞ Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles , diplomat

Works

Title page of the poems
Roman life , 1833

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Friedrich Schiller (Ed.): Die Horen. 1797, 7th edition, Cotta'sche Verlagbuchhandlung Tübingen
  2. ^ Bonstettiana: historical-critical edition of the letters of Karl Viktor von Bonstettens and his circle. Volume 10 , Part X / 2, Göttingen: Wallstein 2003 ISBN 9783835322158 , p. 795
  3. ^ Gustav von Rennenkampff in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
  4. ↑ s: de: Gustav Reinhold Georg von Rennenkampff

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personal data
SURNAME Brun, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer German language
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Gräfentonna , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1835
Place of death Copenhagen